Yemen - Life expectancy at birth, male (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, male (years) in Yemen was 64.49 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 64.49 in 2020 and a minimum value of 28.84 in 1960.

Definition: Life expectancy at birth indicates the number of years a newborn infant would live if prevailing patterns of mortality at the time of its birth were to stay the same throughout its life.

Source: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects: 2019 Revision. (2) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (3) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (4) United Nations Statistical Division. Popu

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Year Value
1960 28.84
1961 29.08
1962 29.41
1963 29.85
1964 30.39
1965 31.04
1966 31.81
1967 32.67
1968 33.59
1969 34.58
1970 35.60
1971 36.66
1972 37.73
1973 38.82
1974 39.93
1975 41.04
1976 42.19
1977 43.37
1978 44.58
1979 45.81
1980 47.04
1981 48.25
1982 49.43
1983 50.54
1984 51.57
1985 52.51
1986 53.34
1987 54.07
1988 54.70
1989 55.25
1990 55.72
1991 56.11
1992 56.44
1993 56.73
1994 57.00
1995 57.28
1996 57.58
1997 57.92
1998 58.30
1999 58.73
2000 59.21
2001 59.74
2002 60.29
2003 60.86
2004 61.41
2005 61.95
2006 62.45
2007 62.90
2008 63.31
2009 63.65
2010 63.93
2011 64.13
2012 64.27
2013 64.36
2014 64.40
2015 64.42
2016 64.42
2017 64.41
2018 64.42
2019 64.44
2020 64.49

Development Relevance: Mortality rates for different age groups (infants, children, and adults) and overall mortality indicators (life expectancy at birth or survival to a given age) are important indicators of health status in a country. Because data on the incidence and prevalence of diseases are frequently unavailable, mortality rates are often used to identify vulnerable populations. And they are among the indicators most frequently used to compare socioeconomic development across countries.

Limitations and Exceptions: Annual data series from United Nations Population Division's World Population Prospects are interpolated data from 5-year period data. Therefore they may not reflect real events as much as observed data.

Statistical Concept and Methodology: Life expectancy at birth used here is the average number of years a newborn is expected to live if mortality patterns at the time of its birth remain constant in the future. It reflects the overall mortality level of a population, and summarizes the mortality pattern that prevails across all age groups in a given year. It is calculated in a period life table which provides a snapshot of a population's mortality pattern at a given time. It therefore does not reflect the mortality pattern that a person actually experiences during his/her life, which can be calculated in a cohort life table. High mortality in young age groups significantly lowers the life expectancy at birth. But if a person survives his/her childhood of high mortality, he/she may live much longer. For example, in a population with a life expectancy at birth of 50, there may be few people dying at age 50. The life expectancy at birth may be low due to the high childhood mortality so that once a person survives his/her childhood, he/she may live much longer than 50 years.

Aggregation method: Weighted average

Periodicity: Annual

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Mortality